Basic Information
Title: Hommage à Barbaud No. 4 (Tribute to Barbaud)
Artist(s):
Vera Molnar
Date Created: 1974
Framed Dimensions: 23 x 17 in.
Unframed Dimensions: 19.75 x 14 in.
Medium: plotter drawing in ink on paper
Inventory ID: Molnar-1974-11d
Description
The numbers are a date code: The first set of numbers stands for the year and day that the piece was made. The second set of numbers is the time stamp that the plotter drawing was completed. This code tells us that this piece was drawn and completed at 4:36.03pm on Thursday, September 19th, 1974.
signed and numbered 3/4 lower right in graphite AD.VM.AV.IA, on the other side of the polyhedron (1514-2023) Collaboration between Vera Molnár and aurèce vettier Text and curation by Vincent Baby Based on a detail -the representation of a polyhedron- from Albrecht Dürer’s engraving Melencholia (1514), Vera Molnár and aurèce vettier have imagined an installation assisted […]
an artist book collaboration with Vera Molnar and Martin Grasser. signed, dated, and dedicated “to Michael and Anne” on the inside cover printed, published, and copyrighted by Sotheby’s justification text from the inside cover of the book: “Themes and Variations by Vera Molnar encompasses a collection of 500 unique generative artworks. Within these works Molnar […]
no visible signature inscription in French printed in plotter ink: “Madame Janine Mayer, Nous sommes honores de saisir l’occasion de cette journee du 31 mai, 1985 por vous adresser cette oeuvre concue et executee par ordinateur. en Sorbonne, F. Molnar et le C.R.E.I.A.V.” inscription translated to English: “Mrs. Janine Mayer, We are honored to seize […]
signed lower right in orange plotter ink signed on the reverse in graphite “A Jeanine Festival Des Arts Electroniques 1988 Rennes 1988, Juin.” printed lower right in black and orange ink